35min Film Premiere, followed by 25min Q&A with director Thomas Smith, filmmaker Tom Kamín and Nadia Johanisova from Masaryk University

The term ‘Nowtopia’ is increasingly used by both activists and academics to describe a variety of interconnected tendencies. It can, for instance, apply to a new politics of work, seeking freedom outside the confines of wage labour, or the creation of liberated common space in the here and now. Filmed in in Brno, the Czech Republic’s second largest city, and inspired by the community economies approach of J.K. Gibson-Graham and the economic utopianism of the Degrowth movement, Nowtopia explores this multiplicity through three community-based projects: a maker space, a community bike workshop, and an urban garden. The short film also includes interviews with Chris Carlsson, author of Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today! and CERN member Nadia Johanisova, expert in heterodox economics and eco-social enterprise.

Film screening will be held via YouTube (link TBC) at 1.00 CET/GMT+2, with Q&A in Zoom from 1.30pm